Nonetheless, when Britain assents in due course to a new EU constitution, the country will be choosing how deeply embedded in Europe it wishes to be.
But what if the reader assents to literature's request?
The governor-general formally summons, prorogues, and dissolves Parliament, assents to bills, and exercises other executive functions.
She knew who her sons and our families were, but her once eager conversation had dwindled to nods and assents, and, for some reason, the regular uttering of the phrase "Let them come".
If the drawee assents to the order and accepts the bill, which is done by signing his name, or his name with the word "accepted," across the face of the paper, he is called an acceptor.
Adam, who is technically Eve's parent as well as partner, having given up a rib for her creation, assents, praising her virtue and logic.
He decided to submit his motion to a judge, and, if the judge assents, Hamilton will become the eleventh person Thompson's office has exonerated since he took office in January, 2014.
Ambiguous he is not, but hypnotically readable he is, and his Christmas stories, particularly the 1871 "Blade-o'-Grass," are, like the best popular television drama, art in which one recognizes the melodramatic impulse even as one assents to the intensity of the vision achieved.
Over lunch in a café in the Seventh Arrondissement, he is relaxed and smiling and immediately assents to the notion that Paris risks becoming "Venetian" if it resists new building; he agrees that some of the most successful examples of urbanism in modern Parisian history — the Eiffel Tower and the Beaubourg are two — were seen as discordantly avant-garde when they began.
Yes, Bush assents, and here he begins to look uncomfortable.
"If we feel a window on the back side, one on one, and we like our matchup, we can go on ahead and take that slant," he said, to nodding assents all around.
